CIRCA 15TH CENTURY

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a sino tibetan thang.ka depicting syamatara
circa 15th century
The gold painted Tara is seated in lalitasana on a lotus placed on a high throne with her right foot supported by a lotus flower, her right hand in varadamudra, her left in vitarkamudra and holding stem of lotus, wearing sari, bejewelled, her face with serene expression, placed within a pavilion, the upper section with four different Buddha figures, flanked by Mahakala, red and blue forms of Vajrapani, Takkiraja and two other krodha deities, the lower part with two Sa.skya.pa lamas and two other masters
96.5 x 55 cm

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Lot Essay

Although the painting reminds one immediately of the famous Green Tara example, now in the Cleveland Museum, with its similar pavilion structure, the elegant seated Tara, it is clear that the present one is excuted later. It is therefore proposed to place this thang.ka at the end of the fourteenth or early fifteenth century. The aureols around the surrounding figures seem to confirm this presumption.

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